Mozi posted:

Khanstant posted:

coffee snobs are aliens to me. I'm drinking some cold coffee I made yesterday afternoon. Usually i buy beans from winco but we're out so I'm just using some preground stuff, idk brand, i think it has vanilla who cares. it's a good bitter drink and drug, doesnt need to have weird plant or animal byproducts dumped in. doesnt need to be hot, the beans dont need everything at some specific temperature and steeping time, hit the button, drink the stuff. the first time i ever drank coffee it was sour because it had been sitting in the pot for weeks and i still liked it. you can straight up just eat the roasted coffee beans and its good. if i had my way nobody would even make coffee, we'd just make our beds out of wet mounds of coffeegrounds and you'd just suckle coffeedew from the night's sweat

one of my least favourite experiences is being in a situation where you have to pretend the extraneous labor that goes into a beanfreaks special methods are significant or impactful in any perceivable way.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

If you want to add some oomph to your lovely drip coffee, add salt to the water tank.

I poo poo you not. You won’t get salty coffee- the way a lot of drip coffee makers work is by heating water to boiling and sending the steam up a j-bend in a little pipe. If you raise the boiling temp of the water, the hotter steam helps get more of the good stuff out of the grounds.

Adding a teeny amount of salt to the grounds themselves helps as well by buffering out some of the acidity. A really teeny amount. A good sized pinch at most.

Just don’t add salt to your actual coffee, that would be goddamn nasty.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

If you want to add some oomph to your lovely drip coffee, add salt to the water tank.

I poo poo you not. You won’t get salty coffee- the way a lot of drip coffee makers work is by heating water to boiling and sending the steam up a j-bend in a little pipe. If you raise the boiling temp of the water, the hotter steam helps get more of the good stuff out of the grounds.

Adding a teeny amount of salt to the grounds themselves helps as well by buffering out some of the acidity. A really teeny amount. A good sized pinch at most.

Just don’t add salt to your actual coffee, that would be goddamn nasty.

ArbitraryC posted:

Not to single you out cause I’m sure the salt can add something flavor wise but I hear people talk about the effect of salt on the boiling point of water in cooking all the time and I can only assume it’s a little bit of knowledge is more harmful than none at all kind of thing cause it’s consistently nonsense.

To get some hard numbers I pulled the first google hit, 58g of salt will raise the boiling point of 1 L of water by about half a C, (which is about 1 F). In American units 1 L is about 4 cups, 58 g is about 2 oz. So per cup of water you are brewing if you were to add nearly a tablespoon of salt you would move the boiling point from 212 degree F to 213 degrees F, which is incidentally about the difference between fresh and sea water. So unless you are brewing with water substantially saltier than the ocean, it’s going to have a negligible effect on the boiling point.

a primate posted:

Good coffee doesn’t need to cost a lot of money, it just costs a lot of money if people to make it for you

You don’t even need any special equipment, just beat the beans into grounds with a hammer

No fancy expensive machines necessary if you can afford a French press

Espresso is good (like real poo poo, from a moka pot)
Fancy weird poo poo is good
Diner coffee can be good too
I have a Nespresso and it’s pretty good
French press supremacy tho

WILDTURKEY101 posted:

coffee nerds are even worse than beer nerds

brought to you by a guy who drinks Cafe Bustelo and Miller Lite